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Meet the latest Mac to get Intel-ified: the Mac mini. Plus,
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a snapshot of the dozens of digicams unveiled at this year’s
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35 Reviews
54 Digital FM Radio & FM Transmitter for iPod
iPod FM transmitter and receiver
46 EasyShare-One camera
40 Evolt E-500 camera
52 iKey Portable USB Recorder audio recorder
53 iPod Hi-Fi iPod speaker stand
38 iWork ’06 productivity-software suite
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55 Maxelerate external hard drive
55 MiniMax external hard drive
54 Officejet K550 business inkjet printer
42 Painter Essentials 3 painting software
51 Pixma MP950 multifunction printer
49 PowerLite 76c projector
50 Sorenson Squeeze 4.1 media-compression suite 36 49
44 Swift Publisher page-layout app 46 38 51
54 Thin laptop bag
48 Wave Editor audio-editing software
57 Games
57 Black and White 2 tips and tricks
59 ButtKicker Gamer audio-transducer review
59 Games Go Universal Intel-Mac update
59 The Movies coming soon 78 Log Out 79 Contest
57 The Sims 2 University expansion-pack review Wow us with your caption-writing
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Speed Thrills
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STAFF RANTS
Q. When will a Mac finally be fast enough for you?
during March’s Intel Developer Forum,
I had my first hands-on demo of the first Roman Loyola RED-EYE REMOVER
When will a Mac finally be fast enough for you?
desktop microprocessor to be based on When stuff happens instantaneously. No time
Intel’s new Core Microarchitecture—a for flashy window effects or progress bars.
radically speedy approach to chip Select an option and BAM! Done.
design. Currently code-named Conroe, Sean Molloy TACHOPHOBE
this dual-core chip will almost certainly When will a Mac finally be fast enough for you?
power the machines that Apple will Unfortunately, I probably won’t know until it’s
too late.
introduce later this year to replace the
current Power Mac G5 line. Niko Coucouvanis SPUD RAZOR
When will a Mac finally be fast enough for you?
Although the performance data I saw compared Conroe to Intel’s As soon as it can cut thousands of julienne
existing top-of-the-line processor, the Pentium D, and not to the fries in seconds, I’ll eat my Ginsu—in that
PowerPC G5, the new chip’s power was readily apparent. Bottom nasty seppuku fall-on-it style. Ouch!
line: Expect impressive machines to emerge from the Apple/Intel Jake Widman TIME-SENSITIVE MATERIAL
partnership. Also, prepare for even more-impressive machines to When will a Mac finally be fast enough for you?
appear in the future—for example, when Intel ships its quad-core When I don’t even know it’s there—when
my first response to that question is,
desktop chip, code-named Kentsfield, in the first half of next year. “What Mac?”
Oh, and to clear up any confusion that might come from an
Peter Marshutz STRESSED OUT
unfortunate Intel naming decision: The Core Duo chip that powers When will a Mac finally be fast enough for you?
Apple’s current iMacs, MacBook Pros, and high-end Mac mini (the Fast enough? Macs will finally be fast enough
low-end Mac mini has a single-core Core Solo) is not based on Intel’s when they can change a diaper and take care
of two toddlers.
zippy new Core Microarchitecture—the current Duos are fine chips
in their own right, but they don’t benefit from all the internal gee- Mark Rosenthal MR. COFFEELESS
whizzery in the upcoming chips. When I asked an Intelian about this When will a Mac finally be fast enough for you?
When will they be fast enough? They’re too
naming untidiness, he shrugged and said, “Marketing.” fast already! Gone are the days when I could
In other news: If you’re one of the vast majority of our readers apply Photoshop’s Ripple filter to a 10MB
image file and then run out for a cup of coffee
who receive our monthly Disc, you’ll notice a couple of changes this while my Mac churned away. Now there are no excuses for
month. For one, we’ve retired the Disc Tour interface. It was getting breaks—just work, work, work.
a bit long in the tooth and becoming increasingly unstable in its
Max VELOCIMACTOR
dotage. Plus, it was simply taking up too much room—room that we When will a Mac finally be fast enough for you?
can now fill with more apps, games, and utilities than ever. When I can instantaneously perform a
Also, we now indicate whether each app on the Disc is Universal complex Photoshop Action while ray-tracing
a complex 3D animation in real time while
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We’ll solve all your ’Pod problems and teach it tricks you didn’t know it could do, then take you on a tour of San Francisco as
we show you how to make a home video your friends will actually want to watch. Our Field Guide will spell out the problem-
solving steps to take when faced with common technical glitches. We’ll then show you how to use the slick new features in
Photoshop Elements 4, how to use iWeb efficiently without hosting your site on .Mac, and how to set up a NAS (network
attached storage) system to access your files from home or abroad. We’ll also put the new Intel Mac minis to the test and
look at Autodesk’s Combustion 4, NEC’s slick MultiSync 20WMGX2 display, Olive’s Musica, and more.
May 2006 09
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the news of the month in bite-size chunks
THAT’S
the Mac mini is now along for the ride.
ENTERTAINMENT!
Apple sets its sights on your home entertainment center with its new Intel-based
Mac mini and iPod Hi-Fi speaker stand.
T
he invitation to Apple’s latest for notebook computers. Considering the use interface for accessing your music,
new-stuff unveiling promised tight quarters inside the Mac mini, these videos, DVDs, and photos. Front Row
“fun new products.” And while chips are a perfect fit. now allows you to access shared media
the new products—Intel-based Both Mac minis come standard from other Macs over a wireless
Mac minis, the iPod Hi-Fi, and leather with 512MB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM or Wi-Fi network using Bonjour.
iPod cases—aren’t exactly barrels-of- (expandable to 2GB), an Intel GMA For example, if you set iTunes to
monkeys-level fun, they’re interesting graphics processor that uses 64MB of share your music over a network
enough. The intro of the Mac mini leaves memory (shared with the mini’s main (iTunes > Preferences >
only the Power Mac and the iBook lines memory), Gigabit Ethernet, built-in Sharing), you
left to be Intel-ified, and the iPod Hi-Fi Airport Extreme, Bluetooth 2.0, four USB
brings the iPod one step closer to the 2.0 ports, one FireWire 400 port, one
center of your home entertainment hub. optical/analog audio-in port, one
Mac mini. Except for a new set of rear optical/analog audio-out port, a DVI-
ports and an IR port located next to the out port for a display (VGA adapter
disc slot, the physical look and feel of included) or TV (composite/S-Video
the Mac mini hasn’t changed—that’s adapter sold separately for $19),
good. But a lot has changed inside. and an infrared Apple Remote to use
The $599 1.5GHz Mac mini features with Front Row. The 1.5GHz Mac mini
an Intel Core Solo processor, which comes with a 5,400-rpm 60GB SATA
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has a single-processor core. The Core hard drive and a combo drive, while
Duo found in the $799 1.66GHz Mac the 1.66GHz Mac mini has an 80GB
mini has—you guessed it—two cores, hard drive and 8X SuperDrive with
essentially the equivalent of two double-layer support.
processors in a single chip. Intel touts The Mac minis also come with
both the Core Solo and Core Duo as ideal Front Row, Apple’s elegant, easy-to-
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can access those shared songs from What’s missing: video connectors and NEW STUFF
another Mac through Front Row’s Shared USB or FireWire to sync to your Mac.
Music menu. You can also access shared Docking your fifth-generation iPod
videos from iTunes and shared photos or iPod nano in the iPod Hi-Fi gives you
from iPhoto. In the demo we saw, there access to a new Speakers menu with
wasn’t any noticeable performance three settings: Treble Boost, Normal,
lag when accessing shared content and Bass Boost. You can also display Wanted:
wirelessly—but the demo involved full-screen album art and set the big screen for this lil’ projector.
a Mac mini and a MacBook Pro that backlight to remain on while docked
were about 20 feet apart, without any (the iPod charges while docked). 4 PORTABLE PROJECTOR
obstacles between them. When we get Apple demonstrated the iPod Hi-Fi’s XD80U
our Mac mini in for an exhaustive review, sound quality at its Cupertino facility, $1,995
we’ll see how Front Row performs with but we were able to get our hands on an www.mitsubishi-presentations.com
Macs in separate rooms or even on actual iPod Hi-Fi just before we went to Available: Now
different floors. press—after you’re finished reading this Weighing less than three pounds,
iPod Hi-Fi. Everyone else is getting article, flip to page 53 for the full review. this portable XGA (1024 by 768
in on the iPod speaker-stand market, pixels) projector is rated at 1,500
so why not Apple? The difference here ANSI lumens and has a dual color
is that instead of simply providing mode to optimize color for business
a means to play your iPod’s music, presentations or video.
Apple is looking to “redefine the home
stereo system,” according to Apple’s
press release. During the iPod Hi-Fi’s
introduction, Steve Jobs said that as
a self-proclaimed audiophile, he’s
considering replacing his home stereo
with an iPod Hi-Fi. (Hey Steve, feel free
to dump your old home stereo at 4000
Shoreline Ct. in South San Francisco, Creative tools that match your
CA. Send it to Max’s attention.) creativity.
Measuring 17 by 6.6 by 6.9 inches $99 for one of these leather iPod cases?
and weighing 16.7 pounds (with With other leather cases that are just as 4 PRETTY PICTURES
batteries), the $349 iPod Hi-Fi has a nice for half the price, you’re paying a Studio Artist 3.5
pair of 3.1-inch midrange drivers and premium for the Apple and iPod logos. $379
a 5.12-inch woofer—no dedicated www.synthetik.com
tweeters, folks. The power supply What we didn’t see. Were you Available: Now
is built into the unit, so there’s expecting a touchscreen iPod video, This app combines painting and
no separate power brick to hog widescreen iBooks, a Mac-based digital drawing tools with image processing,
counter space or wedge behind your video recorder, or some other dream video effects, and a Paint Synthesizer
entertainment center. You can also product? Then you were probably let that claims to be able to enlarge
power the iPod Hi-Fi with six down by the announcements—many images without visual artifacts.
D batteries. The dock analysts and members of the media
connector comes with sure were. So what should you look 4 TICKLING VIRTUAL IVORIES
adapters so you can for next? In August, Apple is hosting ProKeys 88sx
fit any dockable iPod, its annual Worldwide Developers $449.95
and iPod shuffles can Conference (WWDC), where you can—at www.m-audio.com
connect through a rear minimum—expect a peek at Leopard, Available: Now
audio-in port. The audio- the next version of Mac OS X. That event This light (17-pound) 88-note
in port can also be used might also mark the introduction of the keyboard features semi-weighted
with AirPort Express so Intel-based replacements for the current action, seven piano-sound sets, and
you can play music from Power Mac G5 line. It’s almost certain a USB MIDI interface and controller
your Mac in one room on that they won’t use the Intel Core Duo for recording and playback.
the iPod Hi-Fi in another. processor; instead, they’ll likely harness
the power of an entirely new 64-bit dual-
The iPod Hi-Fi comes with an Apple core processor code-named Conroe—it
Remote so you can navigate through was clear at the Intel Developer Forum 88 keys
your iPod’s controls. in March that progress on that chip is you can carry.
coming along nicely.—Roman Loyola
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Kit—the same
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SeaMonkey: that Safari uses.
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better than • App4Mac’s wKiosk
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• VisiStat 3 ($14.95 per month, www
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Sound Panel C
is a Web-site-monitoring tool that
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Kensington’s SX 2000 Speakers for iPod ($159.99, http://us.kensington.com)
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• Snak 5.1 ($25, on the Disc, www
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both the front and back.
Chat (IRC) client
that lets you join ON THE
discussions in IRC DISC
channels online. PictoGrab, SeaMonkey,
Simon, Snak, wKiosk
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plethora of problems, the main one being that your documents can open
using the wrong version of an app. For example, if you still have the test-drive
version of Microsoft Word 2004 and you’ve since purchased and installed a full
copy of Office 2004, the test-drive Word may still launch when you double-click
a Word document. Here’s how to get rid of defunct apps.
DELETE APPS If you get rid of an old version of an app you no longer use, Mac OS
Something to read while X will automatically switch to the remaining app by default. You can uninstall an
you’re rockin’ to your ’Pod. app by simply dragging its icon into the Trash. For a more thorough removal that
also wipes out any associated files that may be strewn across your hard drive,
The Cult of iPod use a utility such as AppZapper ($12.95, http://appzapper.com) or Yank ($19.95,
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14 GET INFO
the news of the month in bite-size chunks
SHAREWARE PICK
OF THE MONTH
Saft http://haoli.dnsalias.com/saft $12
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very February, photographers everywhere flock to the Photo Marketing blank document. Close Info.plist.
Association (PMA) trade show to check out the latest cameras and other new
photography equipment. Here’s the lowdown on some of the newest releases. 3 Go to your favorite Web site’s RSS feed
Canon announced 22(!) new products, including the EOS 30D Digital SLR ($1,399, (the URL should have .rss or .xml at the
www.usa.canon.com), which features an 8.2-megapixel CMOS sensor. The PowerShot tail). Replace Apple Hot News in the text
S3 IS ($499.99) is a 6-megapixel camera with an image-stabilized 12x optical zoom. document with the title of your new feed.
The PowerShot SD700 IS Digital ELPH ($499.99) has a 4x-optical-zoom lens with Replace Apple’s URL in the text document
Optical Image Stabilization. The 6-megapixel PowerShot A700 ($349.99) has 6x optical with the new feed’s URL.
zoom, 6-megapixel resolution, and 22 shooting modes. The 4-megapixel PowerShot
A530 ($229.99) has 4x optical zoom and a 1.8-inch LCD screen.
Nikon unveiled seven new cameras. The Coolpix L4 ($149.95, www.nikonusa.com) is
a 4-megapixel point-and-shoot with built-in red-eye fix, 3x optical zoom, and more. The
6-megapixel Coolpix S6 ($449.95) has Wi-Fi for wireless file transfers. The CoolPix P4
($399.95) is an 8.1-megapixel camera with 3.5x optical zoom and Vibration Reduction.
The 105mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor ($1,035) is a macro lens equipped with 4 Save the file and name it Info.plist.
Nikon’s Silent Wave Motor and Vibration Reduction systems. Create a folder and give it an appropriate
Kodak’s new cameras included the EasyShare Z612 ($399, www.kodak.com), a name. Drag your newly created Info.plist
6-megapixel camera with 12x optical zoom. The compact 6.1-megapixel EasyShare file into the folder, and then add .plugin
V603 ($299) has a 2.5-inch LCD and 3x optical zoom. The 5-megapixel EasyShare C533 to the folder’s name. This will turn it
($199) has a 3x optical zoom and 1.8-inch LCD. into a package that looks like a generic
Pentax showed its new 6-megapixel Optio T10 ($349.99, www.pentaximaging document instead of a folder.
.com), which has a 3-inch LCD within its tiny 3.7-by-2.3-by-0.8-inch body. Samsung
has partnered with Pentax to release the GX-1L (price TBD, www.samsungcamerausa Drag the package into the /User/
.com), a digital SLR that has features similar to Pentax’s *ist DL: 6-megapixel Application Support/Saft/Sidebar folder.
resolution, a Pentax K-AF lens mount, a 2.5-inch LCD, a five-point wide-area Auto In Safari, choose View > Show Sidebar,
Focus system, and more. and your RSS feed will appear on the left.
Other notable cameras at the show included Sony’s 8-megapixel Cyber-shot
DSC-W100 ($350, www.sonystyle.com), Casio’s 8.1-megapixel Exilim Zoom EX-Z850
($399.99, www.casio.com), and Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-L1 (price TBD, www
.panasonic.com) digital SLR.
There were a couple of noteworthy software announcements, as well. Adobe
released Photoshop Elements 4 for Mac ($89, www.adobe.com), which now has
Magic Selection Brush and Magic Extractor tools to quickly separate an object from its
background, a new Correct Color For Skin Tones function, and more. Apple released
Aperture 1.1 ($499, www.apple.com) which features improved RAW processing, a
new color meter, performance enhancements, and more. The 1.1 upgrade for current
Aperture owners will be free.—MV and RL
14 May 2006
Your Mac,
Your Future,
and...
B
E
Y
O
N
D
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What’s on tap for you and your Mac next
year? In five years? Ten? Twenty? Come
with us on a trip into the future.
By Jake Widman and the editors of MacAddict
Illustrations by Doug Ross Read on B
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+POCKET-SIZE MACS By 10 years out, Apple will +NUBBIN MAC In 25 years, your encrypted data, photos,
leverage the hosted-app model (see “Software,” p21). With your videos, tunes, OS, and apps will all live in a tab small enough
apps, docs, and email stored online, your Mac itself will need to carry on your keychain. You’ll insert it into your Mac, phone,
only enough space for minimal system and .Mac-connection camera, or whatever, or wirelessly connect to a keyboard,
software. Match an iPod nano–sized Mac with a roll-up display display, and sound system. The tab will also connect to the
(like Samsung’s plastic-enclosed LCD prototype) and a folding Internet wirelessly so you can back it up, make purchases (it’ll
keyboard, and your Mac will fit in your jacket pocket. automatically access your bank info), or share your digital stuff.
+SATELLITE
Entertainment RADIO
Within two years, Griffin will
offer a Radio Shark with satellite-
Yes, Virginia, there were once only three radio capability. Within 10 years,
TV channels, and music came on vinyl. satellite-radio receivers will be
built into every Mac.
+ WIRELESS VIDEO Sometime next year, you’ll see a + BYE-BYE BLOCKBUSTER Within five years, DVD
video version of AirTunes with a video-capable AirPort Express— rental stores will be on their way out. Instead, you’ll either
we’re already partway there with the Front Row–equipped, take your iPods to the video store and pay to have movies
Bonjour-capable Mac mini and the iPod AV Connection Kit. downloaded to them, or log onto your video-store account
and download movies to your TV-connected Mac minis or their
+CARS ’N’ TVS More and more cars will be sold with media-oriented offspring. Each download will include some
iPod connectivity built in. In a few years, you’ll see TVs with built- form of rights protection that makes the video expire after a ▲
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B E Y O N D
couple of days—although you’ll probably be able to extend the +THE APPLE CHANNEL Within five years, Apple will
duration by going online. provide exclusive video content—TV shows and movies available
only via the iTunes Music Store or some other download service.
+ THE BIG SCREEN In addition to downloading You’ll also be able to subscribe to a download-only TV network.
movies, you’ll also be able to choose from an explosion of indie
and public-domain films, downloadable via BitTorrent-type + FOLLOW THE MONEY That all sounds great, right?
technology. iMovie HD and Macs that can handle streaming HD Well, we’ll also bet that within 10 years, crafty marketers will figure
video will make widescreen moviemaking as easy as blogging and out how to make money by ruining your experience unless you pay.
podcasting—with similar results (see “Content Creation,” p21). How’d you like to see pop-up ads in the middle of a movie?
20 May 2006
Content +REAL-TIME RAY
TRACING Ten years from now, your
Creation
Mac will be able to render ray-traced
animations in real time. Ray tracing is
a way of creating 3D scenes that look
Andy Warhol was right—in the future, realistic, with objects that reflect and
we’ll all get our 15 minutes of fame. cast shadows on one another. It’s also
a tremendously processor-intensive
process: Today, a single ray-traced
+ VIRTUAL CONCERTS Within five years, far-flung frame of a movie such as The Incredibles takes hours to render.
musicians will be jamming together in real time over the The ability to produce fully realized 3D scenes without waiting
Interweb, with video capabilities so they can see each other. for rendering will take gaming and other forms of digital
Using iSight cameras, iChat, and real-time iMovie, they’ll be entertainment to new heights of realism.
able to composite themselves together into the image of a band;
audience members will be able to log on and watch and listen to +
ONLY THE STRONG WILL SURVIVE Fortunately,
the performance. with all this new content, we look forward to a quality shakeout
over the next five or 10 years. When punk came along in the
+ HOME HIGH-DEF Within five to 10 years, you’ll late seventies, everybody with a garage started a band, but
be able to broadcast high-definition video from your own a decade later, only a handful of those bands had “made
consumer-level Mac, which will have enough processing power it.” Same thing: Blogs and podcasts won’t go away, but the
to host high-quality video streaming—especially since by that offerings will be whittled down to a top tier with broad appeal
time we should be up to video codec H.274 (or should we say (which doesn’t necessarily equate with “quality”)—and you’ll
MPEG-4 Part 15?). almost certainly have to pay for them somehow.
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Entertainment
iTunes Music Store will
offer video games. Some
you’ll be able to download
The iPod revolution has just begun— and play directly through
prepare for the always-on explosion. your iPod (with an
optional controller or
via the iPod’s potential
+ VOICE ’PODS Within five years, you’ll be able to touchscreen technology, à la the Nintendo DS); others you’ll
control your iPod with verbal input. “Playlist: Newly Added. be able to stream to your video-game consoles. (Hey, you can
Shuffle. Play.” already play music from your ’Pod through your Xbox 360—all
three of you that have managed to find one.) You’ll also be able
+ WIRELESS ’PODS The iPod will soon be wireless, to rent games on your iPod the same way you’ll rent movies
allowing you to download songs directly from the iTunes Music (see “Home Entertainment,” p19).
Store or stream them over Wi-Fi. It also means we’ll all be able to
share all our music, all the time. The RIAA will lobby Congress to + VORACIOUS ’PODS It took the iTunes Music Store
institute a tax on iPods to pay for what it will call “lost revenue,” three years to sell its first billion songs. You can expect it to
even though music sales will be at an all-time high. move the next billion by the end of next year.
M
ax wakes up two hours employment was automatically
past the time he’s terminated.
scheduled to be at MAX IN On his way to the
work, grumbling before unemployment office, he stops
he’s even out of bed. The iMac DYSTOPIAVILLE by a coffee shop to check the
that controls his apartment was balance of his investment
supposed to arouse him—what account. After paying the $20
happened? A quick check of the fee for an hour of Wi-Fi access
wall screen reveals the problem: (free public hotspots were
The company that publishes the banned in 2010—homeland
alarm app allowed its Apple- security, y’know), he’s
licensing certificate to expire. dismayed to discover that the
The iMac’s trusted-computing Web site for his bank won’t
circuitry discovered this fact last load. The bank, you see,
It’s Tuesday, 2031, and technology has brought some
night during its regular check-in failed to pay the local ISP for
changes that are less than welcome.
with Apple and automatically permission to transmit over
disabled the wake-up app. its network. MallWartCo’s site
Cursing fluidly and imaginatively, Max tries to call his boss loads fine, though—not that Max can afford to buy anything.
from his company cell phone, but everyone’s in a meeting, and Finally, seeking relaxation, Max goes to the park. A few hours
their voice-synthesized autobounceback messages tell him he of listening to his iPod while embraced by Mother Nature never
can’t reach them until after lunch. He then tries to email his boss’s fails to cheer him up—too bad his iPod’s location-tracking RFID
BlackBerry, but his e-stamp account is empty. (Email was changed (radio-frequency identification) chip denies it permission to
to a pay-per-message system in late 2008. The change was touted play. Even though he’s listening through his wireless earbuds,
as a spam-fighting measure, but the enormous revenue quickly the iPod requires that Max purchase a temporary public license
corrupted the two remaining telcos that control broadband Internet before it will play in any location other than his apartment—the
access. Unfortunately, spammers can afford all the e-stamps they location-licensing scheme was introduced by the RIAA as a way
need—the telcos provide great bulk-mailing rate plans—so Max’s to discourage podjacking.
inbox fills with daily offers for genetically modified organic Viagra; When Max overrides the restriction with a hack downloaded
condo loans at the low, low APR of 23.5 percent; and—yes, it still from the Internet—a Venezuelan site, since Google ensures that
exists—Nigerian advance-fee spam. But we digress…) Max pulls on U.S. sites are tightly policed—the iPod automatically notifies the
his coat, jumps into his syn-fuel, self-guided Hyundai, and tells its police of his Digital Millennium Copyright Act violation. Max is
guidance computer to take him to the office. arrested moments later. As the police lead him away, Max thinks
Arriving at work, he finds a security guard with a pink back to his first computer—an Apple IIe for which he wrote his
slip waiting by the blast-hardened gate. Max forgot that his own software—and weeps. What he doesn’t know, however,
company tracks his cell phone via location-monitoring software is that an alert underground blogger has reported his plight to
at the corporate headquarters; when the computer registered millions of MacAddict readers, who are already preparing for the
that he was still at home two hours after his shift started, his obligatory (and illegal) protest march.—Johnathon Williams
22 May 2006
+ NO SUBSCRIPTIONS The iTMS will not go to the + OKAY, SOME SUBSCRIPTIONS On second
subscription model—not in the next five years, anyway. Current thought: The iTMS may offer subscription channels that serve as
popular releases are just too reliable a cash cow. But within five samplers for certain musical genres. We could see subscribing
years, iTMS will have multi-tier pricing, with the latest hits costing to a local-band channel to find out which bands were worth
more than 99 cents. Unfortunately, that doesn’t necessarily mean checking out, or a classical music channel to listen—just once—
that the old stuff will cost less than 99 cents. to every possible interpretation of Mahler’s Kindertotenleider.
Internet
you’ve got a properly-equipped Mac,
cell phone, or other device, you’ll
always be on the info grid.
Think mobility. Think ubiquity. Think
intrusive marketing schemes. +UNFAIR ADVANTAGE
Within five years, ISPs will merge
into only a handful of major
+ iWEB GROWS UP Next year’s release of iWeb will players, and they’ll begin to offer “tiered access” service.
allow forums and comments on blogs. Under this scheme, big corporate customers such as Wal-Mart,
for example, could pay your ISP to make sure that Wal-Mart
+MAKE YOUR OWN ONLINE STORE Apple will Online packets speed to your Mac without any of the delays that
continue to raise .Mac’s bandwidth and storage-space limits will afflict access to small fish such as Rik’s eSausage eShack.
while tying its capabilities more and more tightly to the iLife Solution? Independent ISPs. Problem? What independent ISPs?
apps. Within five years, you’ll be able to get an ecommerce
version of iWeb that’ll let you host your own stores on .Mac; + MOBILE TELEMARKETING Within 10 years, Google
whether Apple will take a cut from each .Mac-based sale is will tie together Google Earth with its telephone-number-lookup
anybody’s guess. system and newly acquired access to cell-phone data and
location information to let you find anyone, anywhere, anytime—
+ WIRELESS ACCESS EVERYWHERE Five years as long as they have a cell phone. Businesses will leverage this
from now, you’ll be able to find an Interweb connection of some technology to call your phone when you’re near their locations
sort anywhere you go. Wireless Internet-access technologies such and play an audio or video ad.
Jake Widman and the MacAddict staff have seen the future, and it works—that is, when it’s not just a spinning multicolored beach ball. Dennis Sellers
is the founder of Macsimum News (www.macsimumnews.com), an online newspaper about all things Mac. After researching “Max in Dystopiaville,”
Johnathon Williams fears the future.
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BACK
IT
■ You know you should.
■ You know you’ll feel better when you do.
■ Here’s how to protect your precious files from
the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune.
B
acking up is like going to the gym to lose weight: Unless you have a strategy for
doing it regularly, it just won’t be effective. Over the next few pages, we’re going to
give you that strategy—three strategies, in fact. First we’ll show you a bare-bones,
easy backup that ensures you copy all the data that you can’t live without. After that, we have
a disaster-recovery strategy designed to get you up and running immediately after a major
problem. Finally, we detail a plan for archiving material that isn’t going to change, such as
photos, old work projects, and music.
No more excuses. Take these steps, and start living a healthier Mac lifestyle.
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Strategy 1:
THE BARE MINIMUM
If you’re just too busy to back up the “right” way,
at least make time to back up what’s important.
C
onventional wisdom has it that you should back up everything, every day, onto
three sets of media—two onsite and a third offsite, preferably in a safety deposit
box at the bottom of an unused mine shaft. While this strategy makes sense for
some, it’s overkill for most—and similar to what happens when you’re told to work out for
an hour every day, you’ll just end up doing no backup at all.
Here, we defy orthodoxy and offer an alternative that doesn’t require a lot of storage
space or time. You can use just about any media you have at hand, including online
storage, external drives, and optical discs. The idea of the Bare Minimum backup is to
back up only files that you’re using and changing on a regular basis. First, here’s what you
don’t need to back up, and why:
■ MAC OS X You can reinstall this from your Mac OS X Install disc if you need to
recover from disaster.
■ APPS THAT CAME WITH THE MAC You can also use the Install disc that came
with your Mac to reinstall all of these apps at once.
■ APPS THAT CAME ON A CD OR DVD You’ll reinstall these one at a time if
you need to.
■ APPS FOR WHICH YOU STILL HAVE THE INSTALLER Ditto. (See “Archive
Your Static Data,” p27.)
ON THE
In addition to these items, there are some files and folders that you don’t need to back
up every day because they don’t change that often. An occasional archiving of these will
DISC
Déjà Vu, iPod.iTunes,
work fine, as explained in the “Archive Your Static Data” section (p27).
▲
SuperDuper
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You’ve probably noticed that all of these folders are in the
Library folder inside your home (user name) folder. To make
things simple, you could back up your entire /user name/Library
folder, though it contains files that you don’t really need to back
up, which drastically increases the space needed.
To copy these folders and files, you could simply drag them
to your backup medium—but that’s something you won’t want
to do every day. You’re better off using software that will back
up these folders automatically. One of the best utilities for the
Bare Minimum backup is Apple’s own Backup, which you can
get when you subscribe to Apple’s .Mac service—even if you just
sign up for the free 60-day trial (download it from your /iDisk/
Software/Apple Software folder). The appeal is that you don’t
actually need to know the locations of the email, calendar, and
other key folders—all you need to do is select these and other
items from Backup’s list of preconfigured backup scenarios. (For
Apple’s Backup provides you with a set of predefined backup more on using Backup, see “Back That Mac Up,” Mar/06, p63.)
options, but it also lets you create your own. Other backup utilities will also work but take more effort to set
up and reconfigure. (See “A Backup-Software Sampler,” p28.)
What you do need to back up is trickier. Of course you want
to back up your data files, usually located in your Documents Strategy 2:
folder—but a lot of what you want to back up is secreted away
in places you’d never think to look. Here are the key folders that
THE BOOTABLE-
change regularly and should be included in the minimum backup: BACKUP SAFETY NET
When everything goes wrong, use this
■ EMAIL MESSAGES /user name/Library/Mail for Apple
Mail; /user name/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office method to get back on your feet in an instant.
N
2004 Identities/Main Identity for Entourage ow that we’ve just shown you how not to back up
■ iCAL CALENDAR /user name/Library/Application your entire hard disk, we’re going to tell you why you
Support/iCal in Tiger; /user name/Library/Calendars in might want to. Two words: disaster recovery. When
Mac OS 10.3.9 and earlier your hard drive goes south and refuses to return, nothing beats
■ ADDRESS BOOK CONTACTS /user name/Library/ having a bootable external hard drive to start your Mac back up.
Application Support/AddressBook Having one lets you immediately get back to business, checking
■ SAFARI BOOKMARKS /user name/Library/Safari/ your email and using your files. A bootable backup drive also
Bookmarks.plist makes it easier to try fixing your sick drive, because you can
■ KEYCHAIN PASSWORDS /user name/Library/ use multiple disk-repair utilities such as Alsoft’s DiskWarrior
Keychains ($79.95, www.alsoft.com) or file-recovery utilities such as
RAID = BACKUP?
A
RAID array—acronymified puts them on all the drives, making in its protection against hardware
from either “redundant the read/write process faster; drive failures.
array of inexpensive disks” concatenated tells the Mac to treat So what’s the problem? Most
or “redundant array of independent all the drives as though they were a hard-drive errors aren’t caused by
drives”—is often portrayed as an single volume. Mirror RAID is the type hardware failure, but by corruption
alternative to backup. In some ways it considered an alternative to backup: of data in the drive directory. When
is, but in some important ways it isn’t. As you save files, they’re placed onto this happens, the RAID software can
Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) supports two drives simultaneously, leaving copy the bad data to both drives,
three ways to use multiple disks in you with an always-up-to-date extra spreading the problem to your
a RAID array, configurable through bootable drive. If one hard drive fails, “backup.” Now you have a dead Mac
Disk Utility: striped, concatenated, you can keep running the Mac with and a nonworking backup.
and mirror. (Obviously, you need to the other. When you replace the dead The lesson here is that running
have multiple drives connected to drive, the mirror RAID is regenerated a RAID is good insurance against
your Mac to do this.) Striped breaks automatically. In this way, mirror downtime for certain problems, but
files into multiple segments and RAID is superior to a daily backup it’s no guarantee against data loss.
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Prosoft’s Data Rescue II ($99, www.prosofteng.com) without
restarting your Mac—otherwise, you’ll have to restart with each
utility’s CD or DVD each time you try a different repair utility. BUSINESS BACKUP
Finally, if you do need to recreate your hard drive, your backup
B
software will reinstall all of your software, settings, and files in acking up in a business environment can be
one step—there’ll be no need to run multiple installers. crucial to preserving the bottom line—it’s not
To create a bootable backup drive, you’ll need software an option. But businesses often need to back
that copies the thousands of invisible files the Mac requires to up multiple Macs at the same time. The easiest way to
start up—you won’t get these files by dragging and dropping. do this is to simply back up files from each Mac on the
Some utilities that do a good job are Déjà Vu, BounceBack, network to an ordinary file-server volume mounted on
and SuperDuper (see “A Backup-Software Sampler,” p28). every Mac. Many of the backup utilities that you’d use on
Alternately, some external drives, such as those in the Maxtor an individual Mac, including Déjà Vu, BounceBack, and
OneTouch line ($149.95 to $899.95, www.maxtor.com), come Retrospect, can also back up to a mounted file server.
with backup software that can create a bootable drive. Larger businesses, on the other hand, may choose
to back up to a dedicated backup server. Each one of
the users’ Macs runs a backup client to transfer files
to the server, and then the server itself gets backed
up. The advantage to a dedicated backup server is that
it gives better performance than using a file server,
and users don’t have to mount a drive on their Macs.
Backup servers also usually include administration
software that enables an IT staff to configure all of the
Macs from one place. Backup servers often allow both
Mac and Windows PCs to back up to the same server,
Déjà Vu can back up a whole disk or selected folders according to and they generally work with various types of media,
the schedule you choose. including tape.
Industrial-strength backup services such as BakBone
Your first full-disk backup can take up your lunch hour—or (www.bakbone.com) and ADIC (www.adic.com) can
even your entire afternoon—but subsequent backups will be run on multiple backup servers, and they can service
much shorter. That’s because most backup utilities back up hundreds of users’ computers and file servers. They
incrementally, copying only files that are new or have changed provide features such as backing up several different
since the last backup. types of files at different times, backing up to remote
If you’re using an older external drive as your backup, it may sites, and backing up to tape libraries. These big-boy
have a smaller capacity than your modern Mac’s internal drive. backup systems mean business—and save businesses.
To make sure you don’t run into trouble, choose software that
lets you exclude specific folders from being backed up to your
bootable drive. Some space-hogging items you might want to
leave out include your music, photos, and movies (assuming
you’ve archived them as described in the next section), the
Caches folder (/user name/Library/Caches), and applications
for which you still have the CDs. Do not, however, exclude your
hard-drive repair utilities; you’ll want to have these on your
backup drive in case of an emergency.
Strategy 3:
ARCHIVE YOUR
STATIC DATA
Some data only needs to be backed up
CMS’s schedulable BounceBack provides detailed info of
once. Make sure you do it right the first time. its progress while backing up.
A
rchiving to optical discs (recordable DVDs and CDs) is
a great strategy for data that doesn’t change and that
you might want to keep for awhile. Movies, music, and Until new storage technologies become widely available (such
photos are good candidates for archiving. Optical media not as Blu-ray, introduced this year, which can store up to 25GB
only lasts longer than hard-drive storage, but it’s hella cheaper, on single-layer media—but currently costs $1,000 for a drive
too. The downside is the relatively small size of each disc: and 20 bucks for a disc), use backup software that can spread
An iMovie file can easily be too big to fit on a single DVD, and files across multiple discs. Roxio’s Toast 7 Titanium (
even a nano-sized iTunes library would occupy multiple CDs. Jan/06, p44), for example, has this ability.
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A BACKUP- APPLICATION PROS CONS IDEAL USES
SOFTWARE Backup Backs up to .Mac, hard You must subscribe to Backing up settings, iCal,
■ Apple drives, and optical disks. Apple’s .Mac service Address Book, and songs
SAMPLER ■ www.mac.com You don’t need to know or sign up for a 60-day purchased from the iTunes
There’s a lot of ■ $99 per year locations of key files free trial. Cannot create Music Store.
(as part of .Mac and folders. bootable drive.
backup software out subscription)
there, and most of it BounceBack Creates bootable backup The backup and Scheduled backup of entire
is very good at doing ■ CMS Products drive. Automatically restore functions are in or partial bootable hard disks
■ www.cmsproducts launches when you plug separate applications. to one or more destinations.
some things while .com in backup drive. Easy Scheduling both backup and
not so super at doing ■ $79 exclusion of folders. Can archiving.
other tasks. This schedule different folders
for different media.
list should give you
Carbon Creates bootable drive. Cannot back up to Scheduled backup of entire
a good idea of the Copy Cloner Dirt cheap. CDs or DVDs. No way hard drive to a bootable
range of utilities ■ Mike Bombich to exclude folders. external drive.
■ www.bombich.com Complex user interface.
you can find. ■ $5 or more No tech support.
(donationware)
Déjà Vu Creates bootable drive. You can select Scheduled backup of selected
■ Propaganda Simple to use. Free if you individual folders, folders or an entire hard drive
Productions have Roxio’s Toast. but you can’t exclude to a bootable external drive.
■ www.propagandaprod folders if entire drive
.com, on the Disc is selected.
■ $25, or free with
Roxio Toast
Retrospect Lets you customize Complex interface. Backing up multiple Macs over
■ EMC Insignia and configure every a network.
■ www.emcinsignia.com conceivable aspect of
■ $129 a backup.
SuperDuper More advanced options No way to exclude Scheduled backup of an
■ Shirt Pocket Software than Carbon Copy Cloner. folders. entire hard drive to a bootable
■ www.shirt-pocket.com, external drive.
on the Disc
■ $28
As with the other strategies we’ve detailed, you need to know The purchased-music-only archive approach leaves you
what to archive. Here’s a short list: with all of your music CDs to reimport if you need to restore
your hard drive. It would be easier to archive all of your iTunes
■ SOFTWARE PURCHASED BY DOWNLOAD music (/user name/Music/iTunes), though that may require
Back up the installer (disk image or compressed archive) if multiple DVDs. Another storage option is your iPod, of course,
you still have it; otherwise, back up the software itself. if it’s big enough to hold all of your music. The problem is that
■ COMPLETED PROJECTS You can figure this one out. Apple gives you no way to restore the music and playlists
■ MOVIES /user name/Movies from your iPod to your Mac. You’ll need to turn to one of the
■ PHOTOS /user name/Pictures/iPhoto Library many shareware utilities that can do that, such as PodWorks
■ MUSIC That’s a more complicated task. Read on. ($8, www.scifihifi.com/podworks), iPod.iTunes ($35, on the
Disc, www.crispsofties.com), or iPod Access ($14.99, www
When it comes to music, the very least you should archive is .findleydesigns.com).
what you’ve purchased from the iTunes Music Store or otherwise
downloaded from the Internet. Apple’s Backup allows you to
back up purchased music to discs or your .Mac account. You can
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also use iTunes to burn your Purchased Music playlist to disc. APPROACH
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However you back up your music, be sure to include the ou’ve probably guessed by now that the best strategy is
/Users/Shared folder in your archive. This folder contains to use a bit of each of the techniques we’ve described.
invisible information that holds your iTunes Music Store Create an archive of your space-hogging static data on
authorization data—without it, you might not be able to play your optical discs. Back up regularly to a bootable backup drive. If
purchased songs. Also consider including your playlists, located you subscribe to .Mac, use it to upload automatic daily backups
in files called iTunes Music Library.xml and iTunes Library, from of your application settings, iCal calendar, and Address Book
your /user name/Music/iTunes folder (unless you’ve moved your contacts. This gives you two copies of some of your most
whole iTunes folder somewhere else—to an external drive, for valuable data.
instance—in which case they’re in the new folder location). Storage in the unused mineshaft is optional.
John Rizzo backed up his Mac 217 times while writing Mac mini
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Mods and Hacks for Dummies (John Wiley & Sons, 2006).
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Field Guide to VIDEO-EDITING TERMS
T he moment you venture into the world of digital video editing, you’ll be bombarded by swarms of terms that come from film,
tape-based video editing, and even still-image work. Here’s a quick look at some of the language you should know as you get
started with iMovie HD or embark on any other video-crafting voyage.
Shooting Lingo
COVERAGE “Extra” footage shot to ensure that at least some video is available for all possible scenes. Coverage shots
may feature scenery, long shots of events, or other material that can be used during editing to “cover” scene
changes, audio-only sequences, or other elements that lack specific content.
DEPTH A measure of how much of your scene, from foreground to background, will be in focus. A shallow depth of
OF FIELD field is good for highlighting particular subjects by keeping them in sharp focus while the background blurs.
FRAMES Individual video images that comprise a clip (see below). NTSC video—the U.S. standard—is composed of
29.97 frames per second (fps).
HEADROOM The area above a subject’s head in a shot. To take an effective shot of a person, leave plenty of headroom.
PAN/TILT Rotation of a camera along an axis. A pan shot, usually done with the camera mounted on a tripod, moves
smoothly from side to side to capture a landscape or to follow motion. A tilt shot moves up and down.
SHOT LIST The written description of the shots needed for a video project, usually prepared in advance of shooting. Shot
lists ensure that you have all of the footage you need when you begin editing.
TIMECODE Notation indicating the position of video footage in time (hours, minutes, and seconds) and number of
frames. Camcorders create timecode, and you can use it to identify your position within a recording once you
import it into a video-editing app such as iMovie HD.
Editing Lingo
ASPECT RATIO The shape of a video frame, expressed by the ratio of its width to its height. Standard television uses a 4:3
aspect ratio, while widescreen and HDTV uses a 16:9 ratio.
CLIP A portion (often a complete scene) of a video project. Clips can be combined, edited, or split to create larger or
smaller segments of video. You can insert transitions and video effects between clips.
CODEC An algorithm that compresses and decompresses video. To play digital video, apps such as QuickTime Player
or RealPlayer must have access to a codec that is compatible with the video’s compression format.
DROPOUT Missing audio or video. Dropouts occur during playback, either because the original video is flawed, or
because the playback device (your old, low-RAM Mac, for example) can’t process video information fast Com
enough to display it in real time. Component
EDL Edit Decision List. Notes and descriptions of scenes to be edited or cut. A proper EDL should specify the time at
which important scenes and potential edits occur. Editors use the EDL to place scenes in their final running order.
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Composite
Interlaced Video vs. Progressive Video
Interlaced video creates complete video frames by overlapping
two video fields. The camera shoots two exposures per frame,
the first including all odd scan lines (one field), the second
containing the even-numbered lines (the second field). When + =
played back, all of the odd lines are drawn first, then all of
the even lines. Standard (NTSC and PAL) TVs use interlaced
video. Progressive video draws all the lines in order, making Interlaced video (above) draws an image in alternate scan lines.
one complete frame in a single pass. Digital TVs and computer Progressive video draws a whole image in one pass, which can
monitors use progressive video. reduce the appearance of flicker.
IN POINT/ The point at which a segment begins (in) or ends (out). You can use iMovie bookmarks to create in and out
OUT POINT points that remind you where edits should occur, or you can use timecode to note an in/out point’s position.
INSERT Editing feature that adds new footage between existing clips. iMovie uses insert editing: Dragging a new clip
EDITING into the timeline moves the following clip to the right.
JOG To step slowly through video footage. The term comes from the mechanical jog dial used by pro videotape-
editing equipment. In iMovie, you can jog one or 10 frames at a time.
LOSSY Refers to a video-compression format that sacrifices some of the information in the footage in order to
generate smaller files. Most video formats you’ll run into, such as MPEG-4 and QuickTime, are lossy.
NATURAL Audio recorded by your DV camera as you shoot. Use the audio as is, enhance it with iMovie’s audio effects, or
SOUND replace it with a music or voiceover track.
NONLINEAR The ability to cut and paste clips at will to any location within a video project, as opposed to linear editing,
EDITING in which video editors copy footage in sequence from one tape to another. Old-school film editing is also
nonlinear, because it involves physically cutting and splicing film.
REAL-TIME Live, full-quality preview of a video clip, including effects or transitions that have been added and rendered.
PREVIEW
RENDER To apply video and audio effects, transitions, titles, and other such items to a video project. Once rendered,
effects will be seen (or heard) when you play the movie in iMovie.
ROUGH CUT A quick edit or arrangement of clips intended to roughly approximate the final project. Organizing your clips
on the iMovie HD timeline will give you an idea of the final movie’s length and can help you choose effects
and transitions.
SCRUB To move through video footage in
iMovie or another video-editing
Rule of Thirds
If you’re looking for a good
app by dragging the playhead.
way to position a subject for
Manually scrubbing through
a pleasing composition, try
video lets you skim its contents.
this: Mentally divide your
STORYBOARD A series of drawings that shows field of view into a three-
the intended sequence of a video by-three grid, and place
project. In digital-video-editing your subject at one of the
software, the timeline (see below) imaginary intersections
is often called the storyboard. inside—a third of the way
down and a third of the way
TIMELINE An area in the iMovie HD or
in from the right side, for
other video-editing-software
example.
interface containing video clips,
transitions, effects, titles, still
Place your main
images, and audio—all the
subject at one
elements that will be part of the
of the third-of-
finished project.
the-way dots
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she exits family gatherings with bags full of DV tapes. composition.
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Evolt E-500
Auto or Program and let it do most of the
thinking for you. When you’re ready to
perform manual adjustments, Aperture
priority, Shutter priority, and Manual
IMPRESSIVE DIGITAL SLR CAMERA
exposure are at your command.
T he eight-megapixel Olympus
Evolt E-500 is a comfortable and
reasonably light digital SLR camera with
Views. Be prepared for a slight tunnel
effect when previewing pictures in the
viewfinder—you’ll feel a bit as if you’re
At low ISO settings, the E-500’s
picture quality is extraordinary, but
when we pushed the ISO over 400,
high-quality lenses that produce equally looking through a tube—but even four- images tended to become noisy. At ISO
high-quality images, making it a top eyed photographers 400, we were able to roll
contender in its class. can view the full image out 12-by-15-inch images
The E-500’s rubberized, slip-proof without the edges on our Epson 2200
grip is perfectly sized—your nose has disappearing. For a bigger printer that showed great
a nice resting place when you hold the viewfinder image, just detail in both shadows
camera to your eye. The camera remains slip off the eyecup and and highlights, perfect
rock-steady when rotated to shoot replace it with an optional color, and no noticeable
vertical images, and the tack-sharp magnifying one ($49). noise. The camera’s
Zuiko 14mm-to-45mm (28mm-to-90mm Sequential shooting TV mode also yielded
equivalent on a 35mm camera) f/3.5- could be improved; great output on a video
to-f/5.6 digital lens has smooth-as-silk you can only take four projector that threw a
zooming. pictures at a time at a rate four-by-five-foot image
The E-500’s nice 2.5-inch LCD viewing of 2.5 frames per second. on a screen.
screen makes it easy to view images and You can still continue The bottom line. If
compare them side by side. The LCD also shooting normally while The Evolt E-500’s standard lens you haven’t accumulated
doubles as a status monitor, and the the buffer clears and then yields razor-sharp detail. Meow! a bunch of lenses that
interface icons are easy for older eyes to shoot another high-speed dictate buying another
read. You can pack plenty of ammo when sequence, but four frames isn’t enough, brand, the E-500 has all the features
you shoot, since there are two memory- especially when shooting action scenes. you’ll ever need, plus some that its
card slots: a CompactFlash slot and an Shot-to-shot time is as fast as you can competitors don’t have. The E-500 is
Olympus xD-Picture Card slot. press the shutter release, and shutter a quality camera.—Arthur Bleich
COMPANY: Olympus PRICE: $799.99 (with 14mm-to-45mm GOOD NEWS: Comfortable. Fast shot-to-shot times.
CONTACT: 888-553-4448, lens), $899.99 (with 14mm-to-45mm Excellent lens quality. Accurate flesh tones.
www.olympus.com and 40mm-to-150mm lenses) BAD NEWS: Slightly small viewfinder. Memory card
REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS 10.2 or later not included. Sequential shooting speed could be faster.
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COMPANY: Corel REQUIREMENTS: G3, Mac OS GOOD NEWS: Easy to use. Cool Photo Painting
CONTACT: 800-772-6735, 10.2.8 or later, 256MB RAM, 150MB features make painting fun.
www.corel.com disk space, 1,024-by-768-pixel or BAD NEWS: Limited undo.
PRICE: $99 higher display resolution
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COMPANY: BeLight Software REQUIREMENTS: GOOD NEWS: Versatile feature set. Easy to use. Lots of templates
CONTACT: +380 48 738-08-49, Mac OS 10.3 or later and clip art. Reasonably priced.
www.belightsoft.com BAD NEWS: Doesn’t compare favorably to Pages in some areas.
PRICE: $39.95 (retail), $34.95 (download) Few features for long documents. Documentation needs work.
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The EasyShare-
One’s Wi-Fi lets
you keep the
cables where they
belong—in the box.
EasyShare-One
you’re too close, as it did with our close-
ups of flowers.
One thing gave us pause: The
EasyShare-One offers none of the
WI-FI CAMERA
usual Fine, Normal, Best, or other JPEG
to find that transmission times varied you can create a 20-by-30-inch print out of have to compensate as you frame your
depending on the size of the file sent a four-megapixel image; the manual also shots. On the other hand, the Autofocus
and the amount of network traffic. states you can go as large as 5 by 7 inches framing brackets move, collapse, or
If you’re concerned about security, from a 1.1-megapixel image. But in our increase in size within the display based
the camera offers different levels of experience, the largest print you should on what the camera perceives as your
make from a four-megapixel image is 8 by focus point—very helpful.
encryption.
10 inches, with the brave of heart daring
While you can’t make Wi-Fi transfers The bottom line. The EasyShare-One
11 by 14 inches—you lose image quality if
using iPhoto, you can send pictures to makes it easy to shoot nice photos,
you go any bigger. With the EasyShare-One
your Mac using the bundled EasyShare set to 1.1 megapixels, a 4-by-5-inch print
easy to transfer them to your Mac, and
software: Just connect the camera to is more realistic. easy to share them. It’s easy to like the
your network, select your pictures, EasyShare-One.—Rick Oldano
COMPANY: Kodak REQUIREMENTS: G3, Mac OS GOOD NEWS: Wi-Fi transmissions work well. Excellent LCD.
CONTACT: 800-235-6325, 10.3 or later, 128MB RAM, 200MB Good image quality and color fidelity.
www.kodak.com disk space, Wi-Fi (to receive wireless BAD NEWS: Lack of JPEG options. Can’t use iPhoto with Wi-Fi
PRICE: $599.95 transmissions) transfers. Stylus may be too small for big hands.
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Wave Editor
INNOVATIVE AND INTRICATE AUDIO-EDITING SOFTWARE
COMPANY: Audiofile Engineering REQUIREMENTS: GOOD NEWS: Edit Blocks and Layers are new paradigms for
CONTACT: www.audiofile-engineering.com Mac OS 10.4 or later audio editing. Creative method for implementing audio fades.
PRICE: $250 BAD NEWS: Relies heavily on modifier keys and Contextual
Menus. Simple tasks aren’t in the menu.
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COMPANY: Sorenson Media REQUIREMENTS: G4, Mac OS GOOD NEWS: Excellent video-format support.
CONTACT: 801-313-8150, 10.2 or later, 128MB RAM, 90MB disk Background processing. Advanced FTP capabilities.
www.sorensonmedia.com space, QuickTime 6.5.1 or later BAD NEWS: File-extension wackiness. Incomplete
PRICE: $449 progress-status indicator. Weak documentation.
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iPod Showcase
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iPod Hi-Fi
NICE-ENOUGH iPOD SPEAKER STAND
COMPANY: Apple REQUIREMENTS: iPod GOOD NEWS: Sounds good for its size. No power brick.
CONTACT: 800-692-7753 or BAD NEWS: Pricey. No extra features or functions.
408-996-1010, www.apple.com
PRICE: $349
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COMPANY: Hewlett-Packard REQUIREMENTS: GOOD NEWS: Fast. Good business-graphics image quality.
CONTACT: 800-752-0900, Mac OS 10.2 or later BAD NEWS: Noisy. Consumes ink quickly. Unimpressive
www.hp.com photo quality.
PRICE: $199
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receive.
GOOD NEWS: Simple, no-frills bag. Available in GOOD NEWS: Two devices in one.
seven different colors. BAD NEWS: Prone to static. Doesn’t
BAD NEWS: You might find it too simple. connect tightly enough with iPod.
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GAMES because you play as hard as you work
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Black and
White 2
Feral Interactive (www.feralinteractive.com) plans to bring Black ■ Use the hand-force skill to stop an enemy’s earthquake miracle.
and White 2 to the Mac this spring—but we’ve got tips today! ■ If your enemy attacks with catapults, catch the rocks and
In this god-game sequel, common sense is your best weapon, keep them for yourself, or toss them back.
no matter whom you align with. Taking the good path? Care for ■ Near the town where you began in the fourth land, look for a
your pet and your people. On the highway to hell? Have your pet path that leads down the hill. Find the hermit in the cave, and
unload its bowels on the populace. Whatever road you choose, throw him as far as you can. The further you throw him, the
these tips will help. more tribute you’ll receive.—Matt Osborn
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because you play as hard as you work
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I N T E L M AC U P DAT E
Games Go Universal
Got a glittering new Intel-based Mac? Want to squeeze all the performance possible
out of it? If you run your old games through Rosetta, you’re only getting a trickle of
what your framerate could be. Many games are getting the Universal Application
Made to treatment, including Unreal Tournament 2004, Postal 2, Doom 3, and Zoo Tycoon 2
shake your rump. (because grazing Zebras via Rosetta just makes them irritable), while new games
such as The Movies and Quake 4 will be Universal right out of the gate. The gaming
ButtKicker community is even getting into the Universal act—the guys at Sqonk Online (www
.sqonk.com.au) have created a Universal version of Quake III.—MO
Gamer
RUMBLIN’ AUDIO
TRANSDUCER
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DIFFICULTY No whining—
anyone
It’ll take some
effort, but you
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for the pros.
HOW TO
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podcast like a pro
DUCKING CONTROLS Twiddle the arrows to set MEDIA BROWSER All of your
which tracks cause others to duck in volume. other iLife stuff is right here.
PODCAST TRACK
Manage an enhanced
podcast’s artwork
and Web links here.
LOOP LIBRARY
Click the eye icon
to load your loops.
TRACK EDITOR
Flips into Chapter
Manager mode when
the Podcast Track is
present.
G
arageBand 3’s Podcasting Studio makes it easier than ever to crank out a righteously professional-sounding
podcast, complete with sound effects, atmospheric background music, snappy intro and outro jingles—even
chapters, artwork, and Web links. With this awesome power at your disposal, it’d be a crime to make a boring,
plain-Blaine podcast—here’s how to avoid that.
1
Enter the Podcasting Studio
Launching GarageBand presents you with some options
for making a new project. Select New Podcast Episode,
and give your project a name in the dialog that follows. The new
podcasting project comes preloaded with a Podcast Track, Male
Voice and Female Voice tracks, and tracks for Jingles and Radio
Sounds. If you’re creating a one-person show and you’re in a
hurry, just click either of the voice tracks, click the red Record
button, and have at it. When you’re done speaking, click Record
again to stop.
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Record It in iChat
If you’re making a one-person podcast, proceed press GarageBand’s Record button; GarageBand will alert you
to the next step. In this step, you’ll record an iChat that it’s detected an audio chat and confirm that you’d like to
conversation to spice up your podcast with a compelling guest record. When you’re done, click the Record button again; if the
interview. Or you can use it for some private blackmail fodder— playhead keeps moving, press Play to stop it.
whatever suits your fancy. To record the chat, simply set up
GarageBand as in the previous step, but before pressing Record,
fire up iChat and initiate a chat with your victim—er, guest—by
double-clicking the phone or camera icon by his or her name in
your Buddy List. Alternately, you can highlight the person’s name
on your Buddy List and select Buddies > Invite To Audio Chat. And
FYI, you can’t record a chat initiated by someone else—this trick
only works if you initiate the chat. Once your chatee accepts the
chat (and you disclose that you’re recording the conversation), This is GarageBand’s way of saying “Quiet on the set!”
3
Add Effects on the Fly
If you’re quick on your feet, you can play GarageBand’s or Radio Sounds to load podcast-
sound effects while recording your monologue or iChat appropriate sounds. When you’re
interview. A piano-style USB keyboard makes this easier, but ready to really dig in, click the
you can use GarageBand’s onscreen keyboard and tickle the Details triangle and use its check
ivories with your mouse. Select Window > Keyboard and click boxes and pull-down menus to
the Radio Sounds track to highlight it, which also activates the create some truly bizarre sounds
keyboard. Plink around until you find the sounds you want. To via the onscreen keyboard.
load a different sound-effect kit, double-click the track title in
the Track List to open the Track Info window (or choose Track > You could spend
Show Track Info). Keeping Sound Effects highlighted in the days tweaking your
left-side list, switch to Applause And Laughter, Comedy Noises, sound effects here.
4
Master Musical Typing
You can play Sound Effects by poking around on a couple of times. Drag the segment directly from the timeline to
GarageBand’s onscreen keyboard, but tickling the ivories any key in the Musical Typing window.
with your mouse is annoying—so use your Mac’s keyboard
instead. Select Window > Musical Typing, and highlight the Radio
Sounds track or another Software Instrument track. Click the eye
icon, navigate to a sound effect or loop you want to use, and
drag it from the loop drawer onto the key you want to assign
it in the Musical Typing window—sweet! You can assign your
own sounds to every key on the board—and cooler yet, if your
interview is rife with choice sound-bite fodder, you can isolate
a segment by loading its clip into the Track Editor (double-click Not only can you type via the QWERTY keyboard, you can assign it
the clip) or simply highlighting the clip and selecting Edit > Split your own sounds.
5
Proper Post-Production
At least half the fun of podcasting comes from adding all
the rockin’ radio-style jingles, zany zingers, and stupid
sound effects. Of course, you’ll want way more of them than
you can cram in while recording the live vocal track(s)—and
that’s where post-production comes in. To pepper your podcast
with wackiness, highlight the Jingles track, and if your loops
aren’t loaded, click the eye icon to open the Loop Browser; then
press the podcast icon to load the Jingles, Stingers, and Sound You can have all kinds of fun with podcast sound effects.
Effects. For the standard talk-radio format, drop matching
Jingles at the beginning and end of the show, before and after
any commercial breaks (hey, it could happen), and anywhere RAISE THE BAR
TIP
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podcast like a pro
6
Don’t Forget to Duck
Mixing spoken content with sound effects requires
ducking—dropping the volume of the background to
ensure the important stuff gets heard. How low you duck your
background music is up to you, but we can tell you how to set it:
If you started GarageBand with a new podcast or movie-score
project, you’ll see the ducking controls on each audio track—
otherwise, select Control > Ducking. Click the up arrow on lead Define your
tracks and the down arrow on tracks you want to duck out of the duck: You
way. The track-volume slider only controls the track’s regular specify how
volume; to fine-tune your ducking, open the Track Info pane low the
(press Command-I or select Track > Show Track Info) and select background
Master Track. Find the Ducking Amount slider near the bottom of sounds
the window, and slide it up toward 100 to increase the amount duck to
of ducking—remember, the higher you set the ducking, the avoid the
quieter the sound effects get when you talk. vocals.
7
Enhance Your ’Cast
Now that you’ve got the audio portion of your or click the Add Marker button and drag in your artwork later.
podcast squared away, click the Podcast Track to Click the placeholder text fields (Add Title Here, URL Title, URL)
add enhancements such as chapter markers, Web links, to add chapter titles and Web links. You can later rearrange
and episode artwork. Remember, if you recorded an iChat the order of the Chapter Markers by dragging the regions (each
AV interview, all of the participants’ chat icons (or iSight Chapter Marker designates the beginning of a new region)
snapshots) get automatically added to the Podcast Track around in the timeline, or by altering the numerical value in the
each time the participants speak. Time column. Don’t try dragging Chapter Markers around in
In Podcast mode, GarageBand’s Track Editor magically the Track Editor—that only moves the art, not the marker itself.
sprouts a Chapter Marker manager; click the Media Browser And don’t forget to drag an image into the Episode Artwork
icon to load your iPhoto library. Drag a photo from the Media pane—this is the equivalent of album-cover art, so make sure
Browser directly into the timeline or Chapter Marker manager, it looks good.
You can even embed Web links into your podcast—so where’s that wireless Web-browsing iPod?
8
Stop, Drop, and Crop
Shrinking photos you want to use as podcast art down
to iPod-friendly postage-stamp size doesn’t require
NO iLIFE?
launching iPhoto. Just double-click any piece of artwork in the
Track Editor (including the Episode Artwork and Podcast Preview
NO PROBLEM!
images) to load that image into GarageBand’s Artwork Editor; GarageBand is the easiest way to crank out a killer podcast,
use the slider to scale the image, and then drag the image to but 79 bucks is 79 bucks. These Web sites offer tools, tips,
adjust what appears in the visible center of the crop frame. and even online hosting for your podcasting pursuits—and
the basic services are free with registration.
GARAGEBAND.COM’S Podcast Studio (www.garageband
.com/podcast) seems like it’s wearing a target for Apple’s
lawyers.
PODOMATIC (www.podomatic.com) provides a selection
of canned George W. Bush answers for your fake-interview
pleasure.
ODEO.COM (www.odeo.com) can pipe your podcast directly
to the iTunes Music Store’s Podcast directory.
CLICKCASTER (www.clickcaster.com), currently a free beta,
promotes your own on-demand radio show.
Who says that size Niko Coucouvanis isn’t a regular podcaster, but he’s having a gas
with GarageBand’s new noisemakers.
doesn’t matter?
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i
Web isn’t a tool for snooty Keeps the tweak almost
Web pros who can recite the rest of iLife anything.
XHTML 2.0 spec backward— within reach.
it’s for the proverbial “rest
of us.” But even the most Click the edge of a mask to activate Use the outer squares
ON THE
unwashed of the Web masses the inner squares to resize, drag, or of a mask to resize or
deserve better; here are some
DISC rotate the mask. drag the image.
TextWrangler
tricks to make iWeb more fun.
1 2
Say “No” to the Nav Bar Squat on Your HomePage Page
A good navigation scheme is To automatically redirect folks from your .Mac account’s
crucial on a busy Web site— HomePage to your new iWeb page, first mount your
but sometimes you want to put up iDisk (in the Finder, choose Go > iDisk > My iDisk). Fire up
secret, unlinked, under-development TextWrangler (free, on the Disc, www.barebones.com) and
pages without links to other parts of open index.html in your /iDisk/Sites folder. Find the redirect
your site. Select the page you want tag: <meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;url=
to hide in iWeb’s Site Organizer, and http://homepage.mac.com/your member name/your
click the Inspector icon. Now click the page name.html”>
Inspector’s Page icon, and remove the and change the URL
checkmark in the box labeled Include to http://web
Page In Navigation Menu. .mac.com/your
member name/
iWeb adds a nav bar to every iWeb/. Save and .Mac’s HomePage is tricky—but it’s no
page, but you can make it stop. close the document. match for your human smarts.
3 4
Take Back the Templates
May 2005 65
66 HOW TO
prettify a page with Pages
TOOLBAR Control- PAGES BUTTON Save page STYLE BUTTON OBJECTS BUTTON STYLES DRAWER
click and select layouts (Format > Advanced Quickly access Insert Text, Shape, Highlight text, and click
Customize Toolbar > Capture Pages), and then your Paragraph Table, or Chart to apply Paragraph,
to put any of Pages’ insert them with this. Styles. objects. Character, or List Styles.
commands in the
toolbar.
VIEW MENU
Quickly toggle This translucent,
visual aids such exploded 3D pie
as the Styles and chart is a master-
Pages Drawers, page object.
rulers, comments,
and more.
Option-click an
Inspector icon
to spawn that
Inspector in a
new window.
N
ow that computers rule the world, word processing— Pages 2. Follow along as we dig into Pages’ niftier (and
what the senior set might remember as “typing”—is mildly advanced) tricks to prove that you can live a Wordless
an essential part of modern life. Corollary: Microsoft existence—and a downright enjoyable (not to mention
Word is inevitable. Refutation: Apple has released attractive) one at that.
1
Pretty as a Picture
First, jazz up your page a bit by adding an image inside
a starburst shape and flowing the surrounding text Pages’ cache
gracefully around it. Click the Objects icon in Pages’ toolbar, of graphical
and scroll down to the shape you desire—use the blue handles tricks and
to resize the shape. Click the Media icon in Pages’ toolbar to good-looking
load the Media browser; select iPhoto from the pull-down menu, templates
and drag an image into the shape—again, use the blue corner helps you
handles to resize the image. look your
Now click the Inspector icon in Pages’ toolbar. Click the very best.
Inspector’s Text icon to manipulate the text formatting; click the
Wrap icon to determine how text flows around the shape; and the shape and image remain editable, so mind which object is
click the Graphic icon to meddle with the Fill, Stroke (border), selected—and yes, you can Shift-click to select and edit both
Shadow, Reflection, and Opacity of the shape and image. Both simultaneously.
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67
2
Charts Gone Wild!
Select Insert > Chart (or click the Objects icon in Pages’
toolbar and select Chart). Now click the chart-looking
icon in the Inspector to bring up the Chart controls.
Now add your own data; click the Edit Data button to open the
Chart Data Editor. Once you get all of your data in place, the real
fun begins. Click the Chart Type button on the Chart Inspector,
and pick a different type—we dig the 3D pie chart. Each chart
type has its own stylistic controls, such as lighting and depth This chart doesn’t
for the 3D charts; formatting of labels, axes, numbers, data actually convey any
points; and more. You can even explode the pie charts—whee, information, but damn,
exploding pie! it looks good.
3
Master Thy Pages
To make your chart appear on every page, drag the object
to where you’d like it to appear, and select Format >
Advanced > Move Object To Section Master. If that option is grayed
out, put a paragraph break (press the Return key) immediately
before the object on the page. Select Format > Advanced > Make
Master Objects Selectable, and click the chart to select it. Now You can still select
click the Inspector’s Graphic icon and use the Opacity slider at the and tweak objects
bottom to fade the chart. You can apply the same technique to after adding them
text, images, shape objects—anything that you can put on a page. to the master page.
4
Do the Math
If charts are Pages’ eye candy, then Tables are its
braininess. Insert a Table by selecting Insert > Table (duh)
or by clicking the toolbar’s Objects icon and selecting Table.
Next, click the Inspector’s Table icon. Use the Table section to
set the number of rows and columns and their sizes, and then
click the Numbers tab for the real fun.
Click any table cell and type some data. Once you’ve got
some data entered, you can assign mathematical formulae to
cells (typically to the last cell in a column or row) to process the
data from other cells: Just click a cell to highlight it, and pick a
formula from the pull-down menu. Too limiting? Select Formula
Editor and string together your own formula: Click the function
button to insert an operator, and then click on other cells in the Color-coding makes the Table and Formula Editor tools
table to add them to the equation. surprisingly easy to work with.
5
Spam Your Whole Address Book
To create your own personalized-form-letter factory, start
by prepping your Address Book (/Applications/Address
Book). Make sure all of the contacts you want to spam have
the First Name field (or whatever field you want to merge data
from) filled in. In Pages, type the first line of your form letter: Nothing
Dear Butthead. Highlight Butthead and click the Inspector’s Link screams
icon to access the Link Inspector, and then click the Merge tab. indifference
Click the box labeled Enable As An Address Book Field, click like a carefully
the Recipient Field radio button, and pick your poison from the personalized
Type and Field pull-down menus. To add recipients’ first names, form letter.
select Name and First. Repeat the process for other fields you’d
like to merge in. To pipe in the data, open Address Book and
drag in a contact’s card. When you’re ready for some big-league
spamming, create a Group in Address Book, and drag in the
whole enchilada—Pages will ask if you’d like to send the merged
letters directly to your printer or create a new Pages document Where shall
with each recipient’s personalized letter in its own section of I send your
the document. Your call. merge, sir?
Niko Coucouvanis takes back all the bad things he said about Pages
when version 1.0 came out. Well, most of the bad things he said. May 2006 67
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